Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Accounts against Government for supplies for Black Refugees during the year 1816, with the following suppliers: John H. Noonan, Lewis DeMolitor, Robert Hodgers, John Skerry, Thomas N. Jeffery, Robert Leslie, Edward Randall, William Conroy, James Scott, Theophilus Chamberlain, Richard Munday, Wallace and Russell, Winkworth Allan, George Eaton, Samuel Head, Alexander Wallace, David Howe, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, J & D Starr and Thomas Johnson
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Government, Halifax Nova Scotia
To Lewis deMolitor Dr
1816 Currency
2nd June 43|3|8
To 432 Rations puch
botten, 512 Rations to
Momery X 241 Rations to
Children of colour at
Melville Island, between
The 24th, April and this date
inclusive Women at 2/3 Ading
Allowance + children as
1/3 ditto Equal to 8b 3 2/3 full
Rations at 1/ Sterling, as
per Contract dates 16th Dec 1815,
Exchange 11 1/9
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 12